Aug
27
2017
During a bout of unproductive, yet informative and fun web surfing today, I learned more about the Brooklyn Bridge. Thought I'd share this great site and video from the History Channel. It's a good warm up to the much...
Aug
22
2017
I spent August 21, 2017 experiencing a total eclipse of the sun with 70,000 of my closest friends in Madras, Oregon. It was truly an otherworldly experience. I highly recommend seeing the totality if you can. Traffic might have...
Jun
27
2017
This is a pretty amazing short film that the great designer and filmmaker Saul Bass created to pitch his idea to redesign the Bell Systems logo. It's a relic from a different time, but it is completely correct in...
Jun
05
2017
This short video is well worth your time: A Tale of Momentum & Inertia from Portland's amazing animation studio HouseSpecial.
Jun
01
2017
A while ago I saw a very sad sight, the removal of the trolley from inside the Seattle Waterfront's Old Spaghetti Factory. I work nearby and we were all sad to see the place go. I have memories of...
May
29
2017
As something of a student of the Stoic Philosophers, I found this nice recording of audio Discourses of Epictetus by Julien Villeneuve on the great site archive.org. I recommend you check it out, it's very worthwhile.
Listen to it or...
Feb
01
2017
Nostalgia is a form of depression." - Abbie Hoffman
I was goofing about on the internet and saw this cool video of 1,000 people playing Nirvana's classic "Smell's Like Teen Spirit." I really dug it and was jamming to it....
Jan
19
2017
When I was in high school, a couple of decades ago, one of the major influences for my friends and I was the science fiction genre of cyberpunk. We ate that stuff up. The neon hued disutopias of William...
